Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
Fundamentals and Applications
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Editors: Carlos M. Costa, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 6 0 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 6 0 7 - 2
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications offers an in-depth exploration of the current landscape of BDS, emphasizing techniques, analytical tools, device… Read more
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications offers an in-depth exploration of the current landscape of BDS, emphasizing techniques, analytical tools, devices, and materials. This comprehensive guide provides a thorough theoretical background and foundational overview, explaining experimental tests, data analysis via various formalisms, and detailed methods alongside case studies. It intertwines theory with real-world applications in advanced materials, offering a critical and pedagogical overview for researchers and engineers in materials chemistry, analytical chemistry, materials science, physics, and physical chemistry.
The book delves into intersections between BDS and other analytical techniques across industries, showcasing its use in polymers, hybrid polymers, nanocomposites, ionic liquids, and active dielectrics. It covers fabrication, quality control, sensing, and monitoring processes, making it invaluable for understanding dielectric materials used in electronics and advanced applications. The text also includes detailed methods, protocols, and case studies, demonstrating BDS's efficacy in various industries such as polymers, composites, ceramics, electronic communications, and energy.
The book delves into intersections between BDS and other analytical techniques across industries, showcasing its use in polymers, hybrid polymers, nanocomposites, ionic liquids, and active dielectrics. It covers fabrication, quality control, sensing, and monitoring processes, making it invaluable for understanding dielectric materials used in electronics and advanced applications. The text also includes detailed methods, protocols, and case studies, demonstrating BDS's efficacy in various industries such as polymers, composites, ceramics, electronic communications, and energy.
- Provides a strong theoretical background to the techniques of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS), detailing the current landscape with a focus on materials, devices, techniques and analytical tools necessary for a critical overview of the field
- Emphasizes recent advances in BDS, with a specific focus on applications within advanced materials across industries for many innovative advances in technological applications
- Outlines detailed methods-based protocols and case studies for the applications of BDS focusing on materials processing, properties and molecular dynamics that will provide valuable insights across research fields and industries
Students (both upper undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers and engineers looking to work with this technique, primarily materials chemists, analytical chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and physical chemists working with BDS or working on advanced materials, dielectric materials, materials for electronics and in the area of dielectric relaxation processes for advanced applications
Section I. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy – Fundamentals and Theory
1. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
2. Equipment, parameters and formalism
3. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
Section II. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of different materials
4. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
5. Equipment, Parameters and formalism
6. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
7. Ceramic materials
8. Solution materials
9. Polymer processing
10. Polymer systems: synthetic and natural
11. Polymer confinement
12. Hybrid polymer materials: conductive and ceramic fillers (nanocomposites)
13. Polymer blends with ionic liquids
14. Disordered systems
15. Active dielectrics (piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics)
16. Electrorheology materials
Section III. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy application areas
17. Sensors and actuator devices
18. Electronic systems
19. Agriculture/food field
20. Biotechnological field
21. Biomedical field
22. Water containing materials
23. Energy systems
Section VI. Outlook and conclusions
1. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
2. Equipment, parameters and formalism
3. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
Section II. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of different materials
4. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
5. Equipment, Parameters and formalism
6. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
7. Ceramic materials
8. Solution materials
9. Polymer processing
10. Polymer systems: synthetic and natural
11. Polymer confinement
12. Hybrid polymer materials: conductive and ceramic fillers (nanocomposites)
13. Polymer blends with ionic liquids
14. Disordered systems
15. Active dielectrics (piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics)
16. Electrorheology materials
Section III. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy application areas
17. Sensors and actuator devices
18. Electronic systems
19. Agriculture/food field
20. Biotechnological field
21. Biomedical field
22. Water containing materials
23. Energy systems
Section VI. Outlook and conclusions
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- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Carlos M. Costa
Carlos M. Costa is an Assistant Researcher at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His work is focused on the development electroactive polymer based porous membranes, anode and cathode material for energy storage applications in lithium-ion batteries and printed batteries. He has also experience in the processing, characterization, and optimization of sustainable polymers and polymer nanocomposites for sensors and actuators.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Researcher, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalSL
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez is Research Professor and Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. His work is focused in the area of polymer-based smart materials for sensors and actuators, energy, and biomedical applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor and Scientific Director, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain